Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1943 — Page 15

THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943

The Indianapolis Times

Hoosier Vagabond

« WITH U. S. NAVY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (By Wireless—Delayed).—Now while vou follow the progress of our Sicilian war on the front page, let's backtrack in this column. Let me try to draw you a Picture of our vast waterborne invasion from the time it left Africa until it disgorged upon the shores of Sicily. It 1s a story of the American navy. The mere process of transporting this immense invasion force and protecting it on the way is one of the most thrilling things I've experienced in this war. I was on one of the fieet's headquarters ships. We'd been lyIng in the harbor for a week waiting while all the other ships got loaded. Finally without even being told we knew the big day had day slower troop-carrying barges In an unbroken line heading out

come for all thst had filed past us to sea. Finally around 4 o'clock in the afternoon the harbor was empty and our ship slipped away from the pier. ' Our vessel slid along at half speed, making almost > sound. Everybody not working was on deck for a last look at African soil. The mouth of the harbor was very narrow. Just as we were approaching the neck a voice came over the ship's loudspeaker, “Port side, attention.” You Felt Deeply Proud ALL THE sailors snapped upright and I with them. facing shoreward. And there at the harbor mouth on the flat roof of the bomb-shattered customs house. Ntood a rigid guard of honor—British tars and Americen bluejackets—with our two flags flving over them. The bugier played as all stood at attention. The officers stood salute. The notes died out and there was not a sound. No one spoke. We slid on past on our mission into the unknown. They do dramatic things like that in the movies but this one was genuine—so dearly true, so old in tradition, so vital with

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WE WISH SOMEONE over at the city hall would quit fighting someone else long enough to fix that low spot in the pavement on the west side of Hook's store at Illinois and Washington. It's been two hree months since we pointed out how water stands in the hole with every rainfall and car wheels splash the water on folks on the sidewalk. Maybe they don't read this column. . . . We'll bet lots of folks miss the military police, now that they've quit directing downtown traffic. We didn’t realize, until they quit, how accustomed we'd grown to seeing them. Out at Ft. Ben, we're told they'll be back—maybe another group of them—in about five weeks. . . . Mrs. Dick James, the wife of the state auditor, is probably the champion four-leaf clover finder of the north side. She went out one day and in a short time bad found 11. Next day she picked another eight. And here we've never found even one in our whole

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Come to Washington! MRS. JOHN HANCOCK, 2706 E. Northgate, reved a phone call Tuesday afternoon. The feminine ler asked for John, who lists himself in the phone ¥ook as (“Not the Dr.”). Mrs. Hancock explained that her husband was at work at the E, C. Atkins plant and asked if she could give him a message. “Well, ves.” the caller said. “Tell him we want him to come to Washington, D. C.” Gulping, Mrs, Hancock asked why. Responded the caller: “Well. someone has erased his name from the Declaration of Independence and we want him to sign it again.” Then she hung up. Such is the penalty of having a famous name. The directory lists seven John Hancocks. . . , Friends

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"In Africa

ALLIED COMMAND POST. North Africa. July 22 (Bv Wireless).—I happen to be seeimg more of the American air force than of the R. A. F. which is the reason I have been writing almost entirelv about the American part in the spectacular air history being made in Sicily. But the British part is enormous as it has been in the air war over Germany—indeed, as it has been beginning with the battle of Britain which was one of the decisive battles of the world. The British have remarkable planes and what is more they risk them with bold persistence as the losses in bombing over Germany indicate. The British gathered large numbers of the little Spitfires at Malta to play their part

in forming the air cover for the invasion of

By Ernie Pyle

realism, that you could not control the tensed cords in your throat and you felt deeply proud. We sailed on past the stone breakwater with the waves beating against it and out onto the dark blue of the Mediterranean where the wind was freshing! and far away the mist began to form on theswatery horizon. We suddenly were aware of a scene that will shake me every time I think of it the rest of my life. It was our invasion fleet formed there far out at sea. waiting for us. There is no way of conveying to you the enormity | of that fleet. I can only say that on the horizon it resembled a distant city. It covered half the skyline! and the dull-colored camouflaged ships stood indistinctly against the curve of the dark water as a solid | formation of uncountable structures blending together. | Even to be part of it was frightening. I hope no Amer- |

ican ever has to see its counterpart sailing against us. |

» = = Worked Slowly Forward WE CAUGHT up with the fieet and in the remain- | ing hours of daylight it worked slowly forward. Our] ship and the other command ships raced around herd- | ing our broods into proper formations, signalling by| flag and signal light, shcoting and instructing and or- | dering until this ship-strewn sea began to break into small globules and take course in their right manner, | We on board stood at the rails and wondered how much the Germans knew of us. Surely a force of! this immensity could not be concealed. Reconnaissance | planes could not possibly miss us. Axis agents on the| shore had but to look through binoculars to see the] start of the greatest armada ever assembled in the history of the world. Allied planes flew in formation | far above us. Almost out of sight great graceful cruisers and wicked new destroyers raced on our perimeter to protect us. Just at dusk a whole squadron of vicious little PT boats, their engines roaring in one giant combination like a force of heavy bombers, crossed our bow and headed for Sicily. Our guard was out. Our die was cast. Now there was no turning back ever and we moved on into the enveloping night that might have a morning for us or might not. But nobody, truly nobody, was afraid

Work

Weaving on the hand loom keeps (he fingers nimble and passes the time of day for Pfe. George A. Swanson who received a fractured skull while in training at Patterson field, 0. Pvt. Swanson is better

known as the undersea artist who has been associated with William Beebe, the explorer.

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ground is one of his weavings which has as its motif tropical underwater life.

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of Lt. Jim Tucker, the former secretary of state. are convinced he participated in the invasion of Sicily. Jim, according to the last word received. was over in northern Africa as second in command of one of the landing barges just prior to the invasion. No Rationing Worries | WE'VE JUST DISCOVERED that Wallace Weath- | erholt, the chief deputy state treasurer, is an unique

individual. He's satisfied with rationing. You couldn’t| %

give him a B or C gasoline card, and he isn’t around ! trying to “borrow” meat or canned food points. In| fact, he doesn’t even have a ration book of any sort| and doesn’t know what he'd do with one if he had it. | You see, he's a bachelor, lives at the Columbia club, | and eats his meals there and at restaurants. That takes care of food rationing. And he has a car but] doesn’t drive it himself—leaves it with his sister—so he doesn't need any gas coupons. The only time he ever spent a rationing coupon was for a pair of shoes. | He borrowed the No. 17 coupon from a relative. Nice Fresh Worms SOME FOLKS screamed when drug stores began serving meals and selling bicycle tires. But that’s | nothing. A sign on the window of a drug store at 16th | and Tibbs indicates the store has reached the ultimate in branching out into new fields. It reads: “Eight-day angleworms in can, 49 cents.” . . . If you notice unusual industry on the part of courthouse workers] these days, here's the reason: County councilmen are | looking them over to see who are the workers and who: are the drones. And they're threatening to separate! the loafers from the payroll. The councilmen can't! fire anyone but they plan on cutting certain salaries out of the budget for next year if the elected officials | refuse to get rid of the loafers in their departments. | It's reported they've already singled out one deputy county clerk for the ax.

By Raymond Clapper

veloped a deadly dive bombing ability. Yet at the two extremes, in the light Spitfire and in the hesvy box car bomber like the Lancaster, the British have no equals. The two air forces make a well rounded team.| Moreover, the two forces are pulling together as a| team. The working association which existed in Eng- | land between Air Marshal Harris and Gen. Eaker| is found here also between Air Marshal Teddor and Gen. Spaatz. | The British and American air forces are mixed] up as one service over here as indeed is Gen. Eisenhower’s whole command. Ycu just don't find either here or in England that back-biting muttering about each other that I found a year or so ago in some other parts of the world. Here, as in England, the| allied forces are one and nowhere is that more easily seen than in the air.

Drive Grows More Deadly

The 1942 Pulitzer prize winner in art, Pvi. Isidore Toberoff, assists

in the occupational therapy shops while recuperating himself.

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he gives advice to Corp. James A. Shook who contracted malaria while

on duty in the southern Solomons.

By VICTOR PETERSON War, the destroyer cf mankind, makes no choice in its subjects whether the men be in battle or in training. And it is the duty of the medical department to rehabilitate ihe injured to the best of their ability . .. to refit the men for active duty if possible,

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Physical therapy Is the initial phase used in some cases to enable the injured to regain their normal body functions And where physical leaves off, occupational begins. It is the aim of occupational therapv to recondition the body toward full co-ordination and

Lad to Sell Jail In Bond Contest

HARVARD, Neb, Julv 22 (U. P.).—The town jail Robert Pinckney, 16, bought here a month ago for $150 through error of city officials, will be sold to the highest bidder in war bonds at Los Angeles to help construction of the cruiser Los- Angeles. Pinckney made the announce-

therapy therapy

A larger loom with fool pedals offers exercise for the leg muscles

of S. Sgt. Leon L. Bagwell.

was injured by shrapnel in his right leg.

A tail gunner on a Flying Fortress, he

He received physical and

occupational therapy in England, also,

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With the normal functioning of his hand and arm impaired by five Japanese machine gun slugs,

Pvt. Fred L. Paine takes up clay modeling to strengthen his fingers and regain dexterity, him is Miss Frances Stakel, cccupational therapy aid in charge of the department,

Working with Pvt, Paine also has

been working in the hospital victory garden to exercise his injured arm.

dexterity, and secondly, to develop possible future occupational skills and hobbies, At Billings General hospital, Ft. Harrison, men from all battle zones and from camps in this country are recovering their skills under the direction of Miss Frances Stakel, occupational therapy aid.

CHILD SURVIVES

4-STORY PLUNGE

Falls From 5th Floor Onto

Hotel Marquee Without Serious Injury.

The two shops at Billings Lave a capacity able to accommodate 35 to 40 patients, and an average of 30 a day are bed cases treated in the wards. Among the various types of work used to recondition the injured are leather tooling, basket weaving, belt making, painting, clay modeling and weaving on the

Yanks Will Get The ‘Early Birds'

WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. P.. --If you want your son, brother or friend in the armed services to have the traditional turkey | dinner next Thanksgiving, Christ-

any designs on the “early birds”

which will be reaching the mars-

larger looms requiring the use of foot pedals But it is not the physically injured alone that avail themselves of the occupational therapy shops. Shell shock cases and patients with time on their hands find the work keeps them occupied and their minds off their long and lonesome hours.

TRAIN WACS FOR 155 ARMY JOBS

There Are 406 Different Kinds They Could Do, Col. Hobby Says.

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icily. 8 Ev itish bombers doing heavy night work in Sicily are carrying on around-the-clock pounding which the American planes are giving Sicily in daylight hours. The fact that we are now operating fighters from fields in Sicily marks the beginning of the end of the campaign. The axis is compelled to withdraw fizhters. We will continue to push our fighter cover onward and that will be the key to further alked sdvances A fighter cover is necessary if we are to protect our troops from merciless slaughter. Swarms “of British Spitfires are most essential in that,

ment as he left for Los Angeles at NEW YORK, July 22 (U, P.).—

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asked the American turkey indus- dant of the WACs, said yesterday

try today to provide 10,000,000 | that women can fill 406 of the pounds of turkey in September for | 610 different kinds of jobs that must shipment to the armed forces Pé done in the army and that overseas, and appealed to proc- WACs now are being trained for essers, packers, hotel restaurant | 199 of them. : operators and consumers to fore | She said there are 600,000 posigo selling, serving or eating tur- tions open for WACs in the army key until that urgent September |but only 10 per cent of them cou! requirement is met. (be filled because only 65,000 WAC It is the “early bird” which is [have been enrolled. needed for shipment overseas. | At least 4,400,000 women could | After that, WFA officials indicat- [enrolled in the WACs without i ed, and well before Thanksgiv- |terfering with the country's norm

COLUMBUS, O., July 22 (U. P). | —Bruce G. Davis, three-year-old | son of Mr. and Mrs. William R.| Davis, of Pittsburgh, fell from a | fifth floor window at the Ft. Hayes | hotel to a marquee jutting out from [the first floor yesterday and escaped serious injury. | The child was taken to Children's | hospital where his only injuries appeared to be bruises and a cut on the chin. He was held for ob-

ket at the end of next month. The war food administration

. THIS MAKES a campaign such as the one in| The third camping period at| Sicily more deadly as it works up to a crescendo. camp Chank-tun-un-gi is now in| the request of Albert S. Scott,

: | | > les war The activity is more intense even than in the days | head of the Los Ange just preceding the Avaston, y Rela © us| progress after the latest group of finance committee. Pinckney, who

At one air field I saw : : : American fighters take off while the preceding mis- | boys received their physical ex- has rejected an offer to sell or lease the jail for $80, said he

sion was still out. Fighters just in were quickly aminations from a group of doctors : | interrogated and some of them called out at once at Pt. Harrison. would deliver the deed in person for briefing for the next trip. The first part of the week eight to the Jighest bidder. This field has been running missions every hour boys received the rank of camper.| Ine idea for the war bond sale on the hour. During the last six days B00 sorties They are: Edwin Elliott. John Bo-| °f the jail originated with a sailor were carried out from this field. a sortie being the hannon. Robert Volpp, Warren | convalescing in a Los Angeles trip of one plane over enemy territery. Out oi the) wasdell, Norman Hughey, Wilfred| hospital from battle wounds re600 plane trips only six planes were lost. And that! Schwartz, Bob Dill “and Howarq | ceived in the South Pacific. He ; is only one field. There are dozens of others from! Judah. | wrote Pinckney who in turn got | servation. which the Americans and British blast hourly at Department heads are H. T. Vitz. | in touch with Scott. | Davis, employed by the BlawSicily. senior camp director; J. W. Auble, | Se Knox Co., Pittsburgh, his wife, and | Those Berlin specialists in air warfare must be|assistant camp director and trading | BIG FISH HARVEST two children. Bruce and Craig, 8, studying this show in Sicily with worried brows. post: Earl Koelling, first aid: Dale] The commercial fish harvest of [had just checked in at the hotel ing, civilians can begin to eat all |industrial activity, she said. They must know we are just warming up on this|Diefenderfer. quartermaster; R. A.|the United States in 1941 was 4,850,- when the accident happened. Craig| the turkey they want. An all-time |England, nine of every ten sini one end. Moir, camper, woodsman and ad- [000.000 pounds. | was lying on the bed at the time. | record supply is expected. women between 19 and 45 are

rr WT ER " bone Syracuse Recalls Scientist Archimedes And His 'Eureka, Eureka, | Have Found It’

Pray, water activities; Donald Auble, nature study; Reiman Steeg, pioneering and camp program; Tom Woerner, dining hall director and bird study; Roland Swingley, athletics; Clayton Phillips, shower By Science Service Bureka” (I have found it!). He had house; Richard Vestal, boating:| ,guiNGTON, July 22—Was| found, while in his bath, the answer Archimedes of Syracuse, the ancient |to the problem of why bodies in Sicilian scientist and mathemati- | water float, or tend to float. He had cian, the father of the much- | discovered the principles of buoy-talked-of death-ray? | ancy or hydrostatics. The story has often been told, and |

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Forces Work as a Team

AMERICA HAS developed several notable airlanes and for the special purposes intended nothle equais the Flying Fortress, the Lightning P-38. which probably is the most versatile plane in the air,

end the A-36 light fighter-bomber which has de-

My Day

SEATTLE, Wash. Wednesday.—My attention has been drawn to the fact that several days ago I wrote a column on 2a commencement address delivered at the University of Nebraska, and attributed it to the dget, instead of to Judge Curtis Bok, who was the real author. How I happened to make this mistake is difficult for me to understand, for I was quite well aware of the fact that I had two commencement addresses, both of them equally interesting, one by Judge Bok, and one given by Harold D. Smith, director of the federal bureau of the budget. But Mr. Smith's address was given at Grinnell college, Grinnell, Iowa, and I have not yet had an opportunity to tell you some of the things he said. They were important things and { mican to tell you about them today, because they a-e things which deal with the preparation of young people through education for participation in the community life of the future. Mr. Smith reminds young { years we are provi

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tells youth that our real test and our real development lies ahead in proving our power for “constructive effort.” He insists that “education must be forged into an effective creative instrument for the job of building a better society.” He fears that our tendency to promote primarily technical education, which is needed at the moment, may create great difficulties when we shall need all the liberal arts and cultural education we are temporarily neglecting, in order to meet the problems of reconstructing society. He insists educators must not allow themselves to be isolated in their classrooms or on their campuses, but must be a vital part in the current movement of the day. Specifically, he says that we have failed

HOLD EVERYTHING

The law of the lever is another discovery of the same man. The discovery opened up the science of mechanics, or the design and construction of all types of machines. In mathematics Archimedes calculated the fixed ration of a circle and its circumference, developed the theory of conic sections, and discovered how to compute the area of the surface of a sphere, Americans in Syracuse will find |

he b David Bose, dishwashing and cleandirector of the bu Modern surface warships and

up director, and Richard Diefenderfer, engineer. Troop leaders are Ned Hehner, 1, mapping; Charles Brockman, 2, secjts truth questioned, that he ar- submarines are designed and built ranged” mirrors to focus the rays on fundamental principles discov of the sun on a Roman vessel at- ered by him. tacking Syracuse, causing a fire Father of Propeller

retary and mapping; George Martin, 3, handicraft; James Markey, 4, which destroyed the vessel and its, The screw propellers that drive crew. | these vessels through the water are

advancements and boating; Paul |

Conrad, 5, tracking and pace; Robert Dunn, 6, campfire program and Whether he did this or not, it| based on another scientific discov- much to remind them of Archi-| lis quite certain that he developed ery of this great scientist. Every medes, its greatest ancient. He was |

to train men in administrative leadership. publicity; Dick Braun, 7, cooking: We do not develop through education the mana-|;o.,, Carmichael, 8 cooking and | several ingenious war machines used | high school physics student knows| not a warrior, but he did much to! about the screw of Archimedes. He help warriors, as American scien-|

gerial qualities which must be based on a knowledge ionaling, and Bill Kegley, 0, swimdeveloped 1 to take water out of tists are tocay developing imple- |

of the new trends of civilization and an ability | ping. to understand the ways of social progress. He also PS SUBIC i EL (CN makes an urgent plea against specialization in edu-| | against the Romans. cation, Which does not pr ‘he Gaining of young USE LIGHT AS CLUB | Sa rehimedes spent practically his people with a sufficiently broad background to see | WASHINGTON. — A new plastic entire life in the ancient Greek city the hold of a ship. His anparatus ments of warfare for the, fighting how many things must be fitted together before they fashlight strong enough to be used of Syracuse. was a helix or screw turned me- men. can get a pattern of really satisfactory living in the as a club, will operate under water| American soldiers in Syracuse chanically inside a large tube. The, However, he died the death of a modern world. Labor, the farm, the city dweller, the and at temperatures from 40 de- who studied physics in their high same device is used in pumping warrior at the hands of a Roman! “Guard this message with your press and the government must all work together, grees below zero to 175 above. The school courses, will perhaps remem- liquids today. and the principle dis- | soldier. His life had been ordered life—and on the way back step instead of frequently pulling in different directions bottom is a cup to holt an extra ber him as the man who ran naked covered has hundreds of practical spared, but the soldier did not rec-| and buy me a nickel’s worth of

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